Superfreak badass restoration-"make superfreaks great again"
- Thread starter fastgtfairlane
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- Charlotte, NC
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- Asheville, NC
Hell yes! That looks sick dude
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- Charlotte, NC
Top deck and hood base coat is done now time for clear coat. I wanted the camo to somewhat accent the curves of the hull but also have somewhat of a color balance between the two blue shades. That tape work was soo tedious and time consuming sheeeesh
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- Charlotte, NC
DylanS
Gorilla Smasher
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- Lebanon Pa
I dig it dude thing looks sweet!!!
- Location
- Granbury, TX
Dude. That paint scheme is awesome. Excellent work!
WFO Speedracer
A lifetime ban is like a lifetime warranty !
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- Alabama
Yes very nice indeed !
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- Charlotte, NC
Ran out of clear coat on 2nd coat at the end and the last 2 feet of the side haha. Had to go get more. The clear I'm using says on the tds sheet that recoat without sanding between is ok for up to 24 hours. Mixed up another batch and laid 2 more wet coats.
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- Charlotte, NC
Thanks I was undecided on what to do for paint or graphics and randomly came across this video. I'm also into rc planes and immediately wanted to do something inspired by this paint scheme. I'm gonna go with dark gray turf. Pole will remain black. Black fittings and pissers, blue grips. Clear coat is drying up nicely. Should be able to start turf tomorrow.
WFO Speedracer
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- Alabama
Yep unless you are using some really fast drying clear you usually have a long open time to work with it.
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- Charlotte, NC
Yeah I used medium hardener. This is my second time doing a base clear job. And first time doing a multi color pattern.
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
Glad you made a build thread! Lots of work in that thing, cant wait to see it in the water next weekend.....
WFO Speedracer
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- Alabama
Thats cool there a bunch of new speed clears out there that dry really fast, mostly for production type operations, but yeah forced dry at 130 degrees and yiou can sand and buff as soon as the surface temp cools down .
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- Charlotte, NC
Yeah I was pretty impressed with how well the paint laid out and the clear dried in just over an hour with the heated garage. There are 2 decent sags on the bottom deck and 2 very small sags on top. Lesson learned not to spray clear at night without all thr lighting haha.
WFO Speedracer
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- Alabama
Don't wait too long to sand those runs out and buff if, the longer you wait the harder it gets to make it look perfect.
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- Charlotte, NC
Finally got to putting some turf down. I added 2 layers of 1/2 mat to the underside and stacked it up along the sides until it was level with the top of the hold and went to the top of the gunnel. I added the extra padding to make the turf go down easier. Shaped it up smooth. Decided to do the smooth on the sides and the molded diamond in the hold. Messed up on the right side but it will be covered up by the 1 inch mat im gonna lay on the bottom. Sanded a soft angle on each outer edge so I could lay it flat and overlapped the joining edge to the dash. Overall, im happy with it so far. Definitely most difficult turf job to date. A 2nd set of hands Definitely made laying the gunnels down easier. got the engine bay with 2 coats of bilgecoat paint as well..
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Big fan of the bilge Kote paint. It's oil, fuel and chemical resistant and you can brush it on which is what I did. 2 thick coats. I did the same in my superjet and it has held up well. Used the awlgrip 545 primer first, then the bilgecoat paint.
